The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M.
·adj Intermediate; intervening. II. Middle ·adj the <<Waist>>. III. Middle ·adj Equally distant fr...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·vt To <<Tend>>; to <<Guard>>; to have in keeping. II. Watch ·vi To serve the purpose of a watchman...
The division of the ship's company into two parties, one called the starboard, and the other the lar...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The arrangement of the crew in two watches. ...
·- Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval. ...
·adj Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old. ...
·noun The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. ...
·noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. ...
In Bartholomew Close, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
1) In Newgate Street, extending from Blow bladder street to Newgate Market (Leake, 1666). In Farring...
West out of Cloth Street to King Street and Cloth Fair (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without....
One of the Inns of Court (q.v.). On the western side of the Temple precincts, to the west of Middle...
One of the bands of a sail, to give additional strength. ...
That timber in the stern which is placed amidships. ...
A deep-roached sail, set in some schooners and sloops on the heel of their top-masts between the top...
The three or four thick strakes worked along each side between the lower and middle-deck-ports in th...
The slight meal snatched by officers of the middle-watch about five bells (or 2·30 A.M.) ...
·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor. ...
·add. ·- A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. ...
At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. ...
A venereal bubo in the groin. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The men on deck-duty from noon till 4 P.M. ...
A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...
The job-watch for taking an observation, compared before and after with the chronometer. ...
The half-watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8, in the evening. By this arrangemen...
The men on deck-duty from 8 P.M. till midnight. ...
, or job-watch (which see). ...
A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...
, or hack-watch , for taking astronomical sights, which saves taking the chronometer on deck or on...
The old term for port-watch. The division of a ship's company called for duty, while the other, the ...
Those of the crew on watch from 4 to 8 A.M. ...
A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...
The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...
The half-hour glasses employed to measure the periods of the watch, so that the several stations the...
In the army, retreat, or the time for mounting the night-guards. ...
A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...
East out of Great New Street at No. 18 and New Street Square, Fetter Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farri...
On the west side of Middle Temple Lane, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). Great Hall new...
South out of Fleet Street at No. 3 through the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward...
A method of converting departure in difference of longitude, and vice versâ, by using the middle lat...
On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate Churchyard. "Ye olde Watch Hous...
At the northern end of Red Cross Street at its junction with the Barbican (Rocque, 1746). Removed i...
See Old Watch House. ...
Removed 1830, when the system of parochial watching was superseded by the establishment of the polic...
This is done every four hours, except at the dog-watches, to relieve those on deck, also by pipe. "A...
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.) ...
To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty. ...
A duty performed nightly at 8 P.M., and repeated when the watch is relieved up to 4 A.M. ...
The military night guard or watch at the evening gun-fire. Naval watches are not interfered with by ...
A sheep's heart and pluck. ...
A sheep's head And pluck. ...
To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions. ...
The senior or passed midshipman is responsible to the officer of the watch. He heaves the log, inser...
The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...